Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He has specialized in nominals" derivational semantics and morphology (including that of the "Caland system"). He is a professor of Indo-European linguistics, and the Greek and Latin languages at Cornell University. Nussbaum, of Galician Jewish background, was born in New York City and raised in Passaic, New Jersey.
He received a bachelor"s degree in classics (1969) from Washington Square College (New York University), a Diploma in Comparative Philology (1974) from the University of Oxford, and a Doctor of Philosophy in linguistics (1976) from Harvard University.
After teaching as an instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor at Yale University (1975-1985), he moved to Cornell as an associate professor (1985-1997) and then as full professor (1997–present) of classics and linguistics. Nussbaum was married to philosopher Martha Nussbaum, professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, until 1987.